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i believe you can get it for roughly $18. >> and bob woodward still thinks that the personal touch can cut through all the politics and open the door to getting past agendas and getting compromises. he's a fan of the personal touch. in this case, it didn't work out. the old guard hat to come in and save them. >> exactly. not a good indictment for congress or the president. >> he bottom lined it. >> yes, coming up anticipation as will and kate arrive in singapore. >> the fashionable prince and his wife the duchess and their journey ahead. you are watching "world news now." >> announcer: abc's "world news now" will continue after this from our abc stati ♪ ♪ >>> well, prince william and his wife, the duchess of cambridge, are arriving in singapore this morning to represent the queen. >> they will visit a botanical garden there where an orchid will be named after them, but that's only part of the big journey. abc's bob woodruff reports. >> reporter: in this excellent adventure the duke and duchess will hit four countries in just nine days from singapore to malaysia, the solomon islands
i believe you can get it for roughly $18. >> and bob woodward still thinks that the personal touch can cut through all the politics and open the door to getting past agendas and getting compromises. he's a fan of the personal touch. in this case, it didn't work out. the old guard hat to come in and save them. >> exactly. not a good indictment for congress or the president. >> he bottom lined it. >> yes, coming up anticipation as will and kate arrive in singapore....
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. >>> a new book by journalist bob woodward is offeri a fly >>> a new book by journalist bob woodward is offering a fly on the wall perspective of one of the nation's biggest financial crises. >> how much would you pay to be a fly on the wall? a behind-the-scenes look at the president and speaker of the house on spending cuts. jonathan carl has an exclusive first look. >> reporter: the president and the speaker, the talks were secret, and woodward said the stakes higher than anybody realize at the time. >> you talk about it essentially as 44 days that were the financial equivalent of the cuban missile crisis? >> so serious they couldn't tell the world how bad it was at the time. >> reporter: in "the price of politics," published on september 11, bob woodward gives a blow by blow account of the effort to reach a so-called grand bargain. spending cuts and tax increases to cut the deficit. the deal was tantalizingly close but broke down near the end when woodward says the president asked boehner to agree to more tax increases. for boehner, that was a deal breaker. he wasn't going to get
. >>> a new book by journalist bob woodward is offeri a fly >>> a new book by journalist bob woodward is offering a fly on the wall perspective of one of the nation's biggest financial crises. >> how much would you pay to be a fly on the wall? a behind-the-scenes look at the president and speaker of the house on spending cuts. jonathan carl has an exclusive first look. >> reporter: the president and the speaker, the talks were secret, and woodward said the stakes...
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. >> bob woodward who uncovered watergate gives us a never-seen-before look at how president obama and congressional leaders fought as the nation faced financial armageddon. diane sawyer has the abc news exclusive. >> the pressure is off. >> reporter: in his new book, bob woodward takes you behind the closed doors. >> the stakes could not be higher. >> reporter: you talk about is as financial equivalent of the cuban missile crisis. >> it is so serious they couldn't tell the world how bad it was at the time. >> reporter: as the it begins it is 30 days until a possible global financial meltdown. the president calls house speaker john boehner to the white house. to try to negotiate a deal that will outflank tea party opposition. as days go by a blizzard of paper between the two, numbers, counter numbers. then it looks close, a combination of tax cuts and government programs, and tax increases. a magic formula. so what happens? well, 12 days before the deadline, the president makes a phone call to boehner. asking for still more revenue, $400 billion. was it a question? or was it a demand?
. >> bob woodward who uncovered watergate gives us a never-seen-before look at how president obama and congressional leaders fought as the nation faced financial armageddon. diane sawyer has the abc news exclusive. >> the pressure is off. >> reporter: in his new book, bob woodward takes you behind the closed doors. >> the stakes could not be higher. >> reporter: you talk about is as financial equivalent of the cuban missile crisis. >> it is so serious they...
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. >> bob woodward and high stakes deal making with the economy on the brinks. >> i love books like that that give you the nitty-gritty behind the scenes, what it is like away from the cameras. fascinating detail. of course, it's woodward, you know it is good. >>> later from a boy band to the biggest names in music who went home with this year's video music award and who had the fans screaming? all that is coming up in "the skinny." i must admit -- as a political junkie, i forgot the vmas were on. >> whatever -- you dvr-ed it. >> should have. i saw some e-mail. more people watched bill clinton's speech than watched nfl season premier with giants-cowboys. i was encouraged the country paid more attention to politics than athletics. >> the game wasn't as close as it was in the end. that helped as well. first politics -- president obama had a hard act to follow in accepting his party's nomination. even his own performance four years ago. >> so much changed between then and now. the president's speech had to acknowledge that. it wasn't exactly the change he hoped for and the country hoped for
. >> bob woodward and high stakes deal making with the economy on the brinks. >> i love books like that that give you the nitty-gritty behind the scenes, what it is like away from the cameras. fascinating detail. of course, it's woodward, you know it is good. >>> later from a boy band to the biggest names in music who went home with this year's video music award and who had the fans screaming? all that is coming up in "the skinny." i must admit -- as a political...